Ellis Con - Saturday Nov 14, Danielson, CT

Please - can threads like this be hidden from us non-US people who get very depressed reading them.

The trip to see two World War II US bombers, the B-17 Flying Fortress and the B-24 Liberator, as well as a P-51 Mustang fighter was a success. Besides a walk-through of these four-engined bombers, we watched the B-17 warm-up and take off and then had a fast-food lunch.

We missed that touring show, but the New England Air Museum is about 20 minutes from us. It's got several WWII planes. The Spawn made one of the tour guides there cry, by asking about the WASPs. Turned out the tour guide had been a WASP and thought they had been forgotten. So she let the Spawn climb on one of the planes that were of the type she had piloted.

But you get to live in one of those perfectly darling little towns like they show on those BBC shows on PBS, where everyone rides bicycles and carries their groceries in wicker baskets. And your Spawn never says "Holy crap" in front of the grandparents, but rather says something proper and appropriate like, "Oh, my heavens."